Forgiveness

Travel with great caution! Proceed with care.

Don't let hard feelings with your loved ones drive you away from the joy of living.

Ten words that help heal all heartaches in a relationship:

"I'm wrong,
I'm sorry,
Please forgive me,
I love you."

How can there be any divisions when that is our attitude toward one another?

Have a good day!
Love,
Dad


"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you." (Ephesians 4:31-32)

Forgiveness does much for a relationship in settling difficult matters and bringing peace to a home, but that should not be the driving force for such an action. Rather, forgiveness should be a response of the heart as a joyful duty because God has forgiven you of ALL past, present and future transgressions through Christ's sacrificial atonement on the Cross.

Fellowship

As we travel through life's journey, we will be confronted with ill feelings and divisions among those who are our loved ones. Sometimes and for some people, the division is so great that the relationship is broken. Family relationships cannot be broken, but fellowship can be destroyed.

Each of us has an obligation to each other to do our part not to be guilty of being the cause of broken fellowship.

Have a good day!
Love,
Dad

Commitment

I heard a very interesting statistic the other day that got me thinking--maybe it will do the same for you.

"Over 80% of the Presidents and CEOs of America's largest companies are regular attendees of church. They also are married and have never been divorced."

The financial and business leaders are committed to their business, family and God. The spark plugs and go-getters of America's economy understand the importance of worship, relationships and devotions.

What about you? Is our relationship to God and one another important? Examine.

Have a good day!
Love,
Dad


"Things Needful

Thou Eternal Source,
Author of all created being and happiness, I adore thee for making man capable of religion, that he may be taught to say:
'Where is God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night?'
But degeneracy has spread over our human race, turning glory into shame, rendering us forgetful of thee.
We know it is thy power alone that can recall wondering children, can impress on them a sense of divine things, and can render that sense lasting and effectual;
From thee proceed all good purposes and desires, and the diffusing of piety and happiness.
Thou hast knowledge of my soul's secret principles, and art aware of my desire to spread the gospel.
Make me an almoner to give thy bounties to the indigent, comfort to the mentally ill, restoration to the sin-diseased, hope to the despairing, joy to the sorrowing, love to the prodigals.
Blow away the ashes of unbelief by thy Spirit's breath and give me light, fire, and warmth of love.
I need spiritual comforts that are gentle, peaceful, mild, refreshing, that will melt me into conscious lowliness before thee, that will make me feel and rest in thee as my All.
Fill the garden of my soul with the wind of love, that the scents of the Christian life may be wafted to others; then come and gather fruits to thy glory.
So shall I fulfil the great end of my being - to glorify thee and be a blessing to men." from Valley of Vision


"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Teddy Roosevelt, 1858-1919